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Throwing the world out of whack
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Italo Calvino's bottom drawer is turning out to be one of the
roomiest in modern literature. The sunny Italian maestro has been
dead for 10 years now, but it seems to have had no effect on his
publication schedule. When people say of writers that death could
be a smart career move, they usually mean that it will give their
reputation a twist of gravitas. But in Calvino's case it seems to
have been a purely notional event. This collection of stories -
some of which have previously appeared in ...
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Books: Italian sauce from a practical joker Hermit in Paris: autobiographical writings Italo Calvino, trans. Martin McLaughlin Jonathan Cape pounds 16.99, 284pp pounds 14.99 (plus pounds 1.99 p&p per order) from 0870 8001122
The Independent - London
; RESIDENT IN Turin in 1953, Italo Calvino writes in praise of those qualities the Piedmontese share with the people of his own Liguria: "absence of romantic froth, reliance, above all, on one's own work, an innate diffidence and reserve". Surprising words from this genial fantasist, best remembered
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Books: Italian sauce from a practical joker; Hermit in Paris: autobiographical writings Italo Calvino, trans. Martin McLaughlin Jonathan Cape pounds 16.99, 284pp pounds 14.99 (plus pounds 1.99 p&p per order) from 0870 8001122.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; RESIDENT IN Turin in 1953, Italo Calvino writes in praise of those qualities the Piedmontese share with the people of his own Liguria: absence of romantic froth, reliance, above all, on one's own work, an innate diffidence and reserve . Surprising words from this genial fantasist, best remembered
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What We Desire, We Shall Never Have: Calvino, Zizek, and Ovid
Comparative Literature
; How does this pattern of repetition-a return to/of the same-constitute a pattern of disruption in Calvino's narrative? -Lucia Re, Calvino and the Age of Neorealism Repetition and Negativity Italo Calvino is almost certainly the most discussed Italian writer of the latter twentieth century, having
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Book reviews: Hermit in Paris: A prophet of hot air and hype
Scotland on Sunday
; HERMIT IN PARIS Italo Calvino Jonathan Cape, 16 pounds 99 pence. ITALO Calvino's earliest childhood memory was of an incident that took place in 1926 when he was three years old. He and his parents were sitting down to eat in their comfortable home in north-west Italy. Suddenly the elderly
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(book review)
Italian Culture
; Angela M. Jeannet, Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon: Italo Calvino's Storytelling. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. xx + 197. Claudia Noeentini, Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood. Italian Perspectives Series, eds. Z. G. Baranski and A. L. Lepsky. Leeds: Northern
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